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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ED\VARD H. NASH, OF \VESTPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO LLOYD NASH AND ELBERT N. SIPPERLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

CATCH-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,102, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed January 8, 1889. Serial No. 295,757. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD H. NASH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vestport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Catch-Pins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to produce a pin adapted to hold ladies work in sewing, which may be readily attached to the dress or to any textile material-as, for example, to an upholstered chair or sofa or to a table-cover. In other words, the object is to produce a pin of this class adapted for general use which may be produced at very slight cost, so that it may be retailed for a few pennies, thus placing it within the reach of all, and which will perfectly perform the functions of the more expensive pins, sewing-birds, &c.,which have heretofore been produced. With these ends in View I have devised the simple and novel construction, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

Figures 1, 3, and 5 are front elevations of different forms in which I have carried my invention into effect. Figs. 2 and 4 are end views corresponding, respectively, with Figs. 1 and 3; and Fig. 6 is a side view of a form having but one supporting-point and one attachin g-shank.

An important feature of my invention, as illustrated in the first five figures of the drawings, lies in giving to the work to be sewed or otherwise operated upon two points of support, which will be found especic lly valuable for many kinds of work, as it prevents the possibility of tearing the work and supports it in a much firmer and better manner. In addition to the supporting points or hooks I provide either one or two sharpened attachingshanks, making the whole of two pieces of wire, which are secured firmly together in any suitable manner.

1 denotes the supporting points or hooks, which are formed by sharpening ends of the which it is attached and prevent it from yielding under strain. In the form shown in Fig. 1 two pieces of wire are used, one end of each piece being an attaching-shank and the other end having formed thereon a supportingpoint. The portion of the wire between the supporting-point and attaching-shank consists of a straight piece, 3, the two straight pieces being laid together in assembling and secured by soldering them together.

In the forms shown in Figs. 3 and 4, instead of soldering the straight pieces 3 together, they are twisted about each other, as shown, so as to lock the two pieces of wire firmly together, giving to the article as a whole two support ing-points and two attaching-shanks.

In the form shown in Fig. 5 the straight piece 3 is provided at each end with a supporting-point, and the attaching-shank is secured thereto by twisting its upper end around the straight portion 3 and securing it by solder. In the form shown in Fig. 6 the entire catchpin is made from a single piece of wire sharpened at both ends. The attaching-shank is made long, as in the other forms, and the supporting-point is formed by bending the upper end of the wire downward and inward, and then outward and upward again, the support ing point being the same as in the other forms.

It will of course be understood that these details of construction may be greatly varied without departing from the principle of my inventionas, for example, the length of the straight portions and the attaching-shanks' and the shape and curvature of the attachingpoints may be changed without affecting the invention in the slightest.

The operation is so simple as hardly to re quire explanation. The pin is secured in place by sticking the shank or shanks into a chair, sofa, or table-co ver, or into the clothing of the user, and the work to be supported simply has to be caught upon the attaching-points, which are preferably made fine and sharp, so as not to injure the work in the slightest.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A catch-pin consisting of an attachingshank and a supporting-point formed by curvin g the wire downward, and then outward and upward, said attaching-shank extending below the curve of the supporting-point.

2. A catch-pin consisting of supporting- I 5 points curved downward and upward, and one or more sharpened attaching-shanks, the whole being formed from two pieces of wire attached together in any suitable manner, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWVARD H. NASH.

\Vitnesses:

A. M. WoosrER, ETTA F. PETTIT. 

